The wits and beaux of society, by Grace and Philip Wharton, المجلد 2 |
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... looks , with a somewhat chubby face , admiring and following : Sir Robert , in a cocked hat , edged with silver lace , a curled short wig , a loose coat , also edged with silver lace , and with a half humorous expres- sion on his vulgar ...
... looks , with a somewhat chubby face , admiring and following : Sir Robert , in a cocked hat , edged with silver lace , a curled short wig , a loose coat , also edged with silver lace , and with a half humorous expres- sion on his vulgar ...
الصفحة 26
... look at the resemblance , also by Kneller , of the short - lived , ill - used Catherine Shorter , the Premier's first wife - even though he still endured it in his bed - room ? a mute reproach for his neglect and misconduct . So let us ...
... look at the resemblance , also by Kneller , of the short - lived , ill - used Catherine Shorter , the Premier's first wife - even though he still endured it in his bed - room ? a mute reproach for his neglect and misconduct . So let us ...
الصفحة 32
... look through its loop - holes , not only on the wide world beyond , but into the small world within ; and face the fine gentleman author in every period of his varied life . " The Strawberry Gazette , ' Horace once wrote to a fine and ...
... look through its loop - holes , not only on the wide world beyond , but into the small world within ; and face the fine gentleman author in every period of his varied life . " The Strawberry Gazette , ' Horace once wrote to a fine and ...
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... , as she slowly withdrew , we of the com- monalty scarce worthy to look , gathered around the spot again , and wondered at the perfect life , the perfect colouring , VOL . II . Ꭰ 34 SACRILEGE . proportion , and keeping of those tiny.
... , as she slowly withdrew , we of the com- monalty scarce worthy to look , gathered around the spot again , and wondered at the perfect life , the perfect colouring , VOL . II . Ꭰ 34 SACRILEGE . proportion , and keeping of those tiny.
الصفحة 35
... looks as if royalty had disagreed with him . Next we enter the Holbein Chamber . Horace hated bishops and archbishops , and all the hierarchy ; yet here again we behold another prelatical chimneypiece a frieze taken from the tomb of ...
... looks as if royalty had disagreed with him . Next we enter the Holbein Chamber . Horace hated bishops and archbishops , and all the hierarchy ; yet here again we behold another prelatical chimneypiece a frieze taken from the tomb of ...
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الصفحة 104 - He is only willing to believe ; I do believe. The evidence is enough for me, though not for his great mind. What will not fill a quart bottle will fill a pint bottle. I am filled with belief.' 'Are you," said Colman, 'then cork it up.
الصفحة 70 - The next time Mr. Selwyn calls, show him up. If I am alive, I shall be delighted to see him ; and if I am dead, he will be glad to see me.
الصفحة 228 - WUT, is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals. They are so imbued with metaphysics that they even make love metaphysically. I overheard a young lady of my acquaintance, at a dance in Edinburgh, exclaim, in a sudden pause of the music, ' What you say, my Lord, is very true of love in the aibstract, but' — here the fiddlers began fiddling furiously, and the rest was lost.
الصفحة 270 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenlyj affecting not to mind him.
الصفحة 272 - Sir, it is not a talent; it is a vice; it is what others abstain from. It is not comedy, which exhibits the character of a species, as that of a miser gathered from many misers : it is a farce which exhibits individuals.
الصفحة 102 - I allowed him all his own merit." He now added, "Sheridan cannot bear me. I bring his declamation to a point. I ask him a plain question, 'What do you mean to teach?' Besides, Sir, what influence can Mr. Sheridan have upon the language of this great country, by his narrow exertions? Sir, it is burning a farthing candle at Dover, to show light at Calais.
الصفحة 259 - it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
الصفحة 133 - If the thought is slow to come,' he would say, ' a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it' Those glasses of good wine, were, unfortunately, even more frequent than the good thoughts, many and merry as they were. His neglect of letters was a standing joke against him. He never took the trouble to open any that he did not expect, and often left sealed many that he was most anxious to read. He once appeared with his begging face at the Bank, humbly asking...